“Buckets Of Rain” (1974)

This five verse tight finger picking acoustic song goes along with a six line rhyme scheme of a/b/b/c/d/c, with one exception.  Its lightness and sway have a sound quality that makes the structure seem to disappear or at least not be noticeable perhaps the way all good verse works.

The fourth line of four of the five verses end with “baby.”  The exception is the third verse, which also departs from a/b/b/c/d/c for a/b/b/c/c/c,

Like your smile
And your fingertips
Like the way that you move your lips
I like the cool way you look at me
Everything about you is bringing me
Misery

which replaces the word but not the “e” sound in “baby” with the echo rhyme me/me with “Misery,” perhaps giving attention to how the word “misery” has the word “me” in it.

The last verse has an echo rhyme as well (must/must), but it is an internal rhyme with the rhyme at the end of the previous line:

Life is sad
Life is a bust
All ya can do is do what you must
You do what you must do and ya do it well
I’ll do it for you, honey baby
Can’t you tell?

I’m not an expert on instrumental sounds, but this song’s acoustic guitar brings out so well the rhyme sounds; I can hear something from each guitar solo that follows and sets up the lyrics that align so well with the rhythm and pattern the rhymes create.

The song was performed live just once on November 18, 1990. Here is the audio of it.

 

Advertisement
Leave a comment

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s

%d bloggers like this: